Steam Power Gallery

Battle of Mobile Bay, Civil War, 1864

Farragut's flagship USS "Hartford" colliding with the ironclad CSS "Tennessee" to secure Mobile Bay, 1864.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Grain barges leaving Chicago for the Erie Canal

Barges loaded with grain from Chicago bound for the Erie Canal, under tow on Lake Michigan, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Sinking of the ironclad USS Monitor in a gale off North Carolina, 1862, crew making for the USS Rhode Island.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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